Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tax, impost, or excise duty, especially in continental Europe; formerly, in France, specifically the tax on salt, but also applied to taxes on other industrial products.
- To tax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, law, obsolete A
rent ,service ,tribute ,custom ,tax ,impost , orduty ; anexcise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nawt can put ennyfing else in wif him sept snails, an him spits gabel at tehm.
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The ville surrounding it only contained ninety-five houses, paying gabel-tax, in the Norman survey.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The ville surrounding it only contained ninety-five houses, paying gabel-tax, in the Norman survey.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Yes," replied the townsman, "I am deputed by the people of St. Michel to tell you that they are good servants of the king, but that they do not mean to have any gabel, or marks on pewter or tobacco, or stamped papers, or _yreffe d'arbitrage_ (arbitration-clerk's fee)."
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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When he entered his study at St. Ouen, and saw on his desk the memoranda of his schemes, his plans for reforming the gabel, for suppressing custom-houses, for extending provincial assemblies, he threw himself back in his arm-chair, and, dropping the papers he held in his hand, burst into tears.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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When the comptroller-general proposed to the king to abolish privileges, and assess the impost equally, renouncing the twentieths, diminishing the gabel, suppressing custom-houses in the interior and establishing provincial assemblies, Louis XVI. recognized an echo of his illustrious ministers.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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The insurrection at Bordeaux against the gabel in 1548 was certainly more serious than that of Rochelle in 1542; but it is also quite certain that
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion: — a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gabel end of yellow brick,
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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On the opposite side of the street projects the gabel end of a building once part of the _Blue Boar_, afterwards _Blue Bell_ inn, in ancient times undoubtedly the principal inn of the place.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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As a natural mark of the event, a sudden storm at the same moment swept the land: the gabel-wall of the frail dwelling gave way, and the babe-bard was hurried through a tempest of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel.
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